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v0.8.0.14 — the coaches that never come back, and a district that ends at its own sign
Six reports from the Day 2-3 playtest of v0.8.0.13. GAMES IN PROGRESS DO NOT SURVIVE THIS ONE. Modifiers are now bounded by the Limits, which makes a once-legal move illegal, so a save holding one is refused at that move: whistle-6945.day3.stage10 stops at intent 528 of 539. Jesse's call, knowing it strands the game on the box. The file is untouched and v0.8.0.13 still finishes it. The Sparrow running empty and Tom unable to unload his passengers are the same shortage from opposite ends, and both are the rules working as printed. §9.2 boarding discards the emptied coach into the CLASSIFICATION yard, detraining draws a fresh empty out of the DIVISION yard, and §2.2 sends Classification back only when the Division Yard runs bare — so coaches move one way. Measured over the save: sixteen in the Division Yard at setup, zero from Day 2 Stage 8 to the end, fifteen piled in Classification, the Division Yard steady at 46-47 freight cars with no prospect of going bare. Jesse's ruling is Gitea#2's: the shortage stays and the game says so. A train made up short now reports what its card wanted and why none is coming (`makeUpShort` — `trainNeedingCars` answered null for "done" and for "cannot be done" alike, so the phase moved on in silence); the yard panel warns while the condition lasts; the Depot's blocked panel was right all along. The modifier outside the Limits was working as designed and the design was Jesse's own call, now reversed. What decided it is what the board shows — a card beyond your own sign, in territory §8.1 and §10 reason about. The case that motivated the exemption was checked on the reported move rather than argued away: the Power Plant sat at (-1,3) against a sign at column 3 and two spots inside were free, legal and adjacent. Switching filled the history with coordinates — a line per move, plus one per mandatory coupling. It is still LOGGED in full; what the panel draws is the line saying somebody switched, the first move, work at an INDUSTRY (named, not a coordinate), the Small Yard sort, and a closing summary. The suppressed lines are still WRITTEN, marked `trace`: dropping them outright was the first attempt and the step-queue suite caught it, because dwellForStep pays nothing for a step that said nothing, so the board stopped replaying switching at all. The last move rides in the closing line rather than being kept in place — nothing knows a move was the last until the turn is over, by which time the line has been streamed to every client and cannot be revised. Two things fell out of reading those lines: every move ended with a tutorial sentence the opener already gives, and the move count said "of 6" with the six hardcoded, which is wrong on a night Stage. Make-up lines name their train — they all read "the train being made up", so looking back for train 10 found nothing under that name — and "a empty tank" is now "an empty tank". The Small Yard's options read as the train they would build instead of `[1,2,3,0]`; the one Jesse wanted was the first of five and unreadable. Two of those five were junk: bringing the last car to the end is the identity and would have spent a Move, and a two-car reversal duplicated its only real option. Both are filtered by the resulting order, not by the case that made them. A Small Yard may now put cars AHEAD of the engine, which was Jesse's own open question. Two sources disagreed and the design notes won: the v0.4.5 card text says the sort puts the engine at the nose, implications.md says "any order, including cars ahead of the engine". `engineAt` is optional on the intent, so older saves replay to the same train. The menu did not multiply — the engine is a separate short list against the consist as it stands, eight options for a four-car train rather than twenty. §8.2 needed no new code: badlyMadeUp is deliberately direction-free, so a PUSHING train is fit to run and only a broken-backed one is held. The button warns by asking that predicate rather than copying it, and immediately earned itself — every one of train 10's eight options is refused, the one asked for at the table included, because that train carries a caboose and each sort moves it off the rear. That is the right answer rather than a gap: the train is already made up, so every offer would break it, and the labels say which is which. A made-up order is always on the menu for a train that needs one, because "bring car k to the tail" is enumerated for every car and the caboose is one of them. Labels read WEST TO EAST, with the engine drawn as the board's own ◀ / ▶ arrow. "Front to back" is not a direction a table can read — which end is the front depends on which way the train points — and board-svg has reversed east-facing consists since v0.8.0, so the button now describes the same train as the picture. The Freight Agent, Porter and Laborer groups now say what the role is for, where the role is chosen. Tom reached for the Freight Agent to detrain passengers, which is a Porter's action in the Cargo phase; both halves were working and neither was visible. TODO closes #107 (the nose sort) and gains #108 (the coach ratchet, with the measurement, to revisit on a second game's data). 999 fast tests and 35 sim tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DmdqqCNoiqE7GBo6wthBnR |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.8.0.13 — the board on screen is the board you can act on
Nine reports from the Day 1-2 playtest of v0.8.0.12. One moved a car, one was a rule working correctly with nothing on screen to say so, and the rest are things the table could not see. The real bug: the Division Yard chips stayed lit and clickable while the board was catching up. `renderActions` puts the action list away while the queue is behind — a move offered against a position that has already moved on is a move made blind — but the make-up wiring sat outside that guard. A chip was clicked during a bot's make-up, a coach left the yard, and the train ended up with three cars: a real intent submitted against a board several moves stale. The chips now follow the queue like every other control, and the yard COUNTS are drawn from the shown board rather than the live game — they were the one panel still reporting a future the player had not been shown. The Office Area picker had a button per opponent and none for yourself, so the one player who could not reach their own district was the player waiting on everybody else. Your own seat is in the row now, and the row is ordered by SEAT, west to east as the Division map draws it, rather than by join order — sorted from the Frame's own `seat` on every render, so it rotates with Employee Rotation instead of having to be told. §5's handover of the Fedora rode on `actorChanged`, which is turn bookkeeping and which `record()` drops as noise, so the one moment it carried that a player needed went past in silence. It is its own event now, narrated and announced. The phase keeps its name: the Supervisor Shift refreshes every Laborer and Porter EVERY Stage and the Fedora moves only every third. A collision now names whose Office it was and who paid the 5 Revenue, which rode in a separate `revenueChanged`; a Mainline collision is phrased differently because §10 makes it the Superintendent's. Passengers, reported as a bug and ruled not one after replaying the save: the Depot's capacity and modifiers were fine, and §6.3 stocking wants a LOADED coach out of the Division Yard, which held none while six sat in Classification. The shortage stays — running out is part of the game, the same ruling Gitea#2 got — but the blocked panel says so now instead of the action being silently absent. Smaller: "working left" is "working eastward" in the make-up panel and the New Train tip, because the map runs west to east and the table does not; the history panel keeps 90 lines instead of 60 in the same 230px box. `git diff v0.8.0.12..v0.8.0.13 -- src/engine/` is NOT empty this time: `events.ts` declares `superintendentChanged` and `advance.ts` emits it. Both are additive — `check()`, `legal.ts` and every predicate are untouched, and events are derived by replaying a save rather than stored — so no once-legal move became illegal and games in progress resume. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DmdqqCNoiqE7GBo6wthBnR |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.8.0.11 — sixteen fixes from the second multiplayer playtest
Arrivals name whose Office they reached, and no longer tell every seat they can work the train. The turn chart follows the animation queue, so being five behind looks five behind across the whole screen rather than half of it. Pause sits beside Skip and preserves the dwell a held step still owed. A one-render look at another player's Office Area. The district summary counts the board being shown. LIMITS is printed beneath its card instead of through its border. The Mainline region divider is visible. Only Hilly mentions FAST/SLOW, because it is the only card that reads it. A passenger Modifier on a Whistle Post reports itself dormant rather than claiming the facility "only receives". An automatic phase says what the Division is doing instead of answering by negation. The version appears once in the header rather than twice on every .s9pk. Save files carry the join code, the Stage and the date. The New Train phase, reviewed before being changed: the make-up panel now says what the train STILL needs rather than only what its card calls for, explains that a player adds one car before the round passes on, marks the train being loaded on the Division map, and gives an addable car in the yard the same amber every other clickable thing on the page wears. Reasoning, measurements and the reports behind each are in CHANGELOG.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nnuCv8UodHucFfx3LWEoX |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.8.0.10 — playtest fixes: clearance rulings, the log, the map, and a save file
From the first two multiplayer playtests of v0.8.0.9, each traced before fixing. The engine: - A train on a card BEHIND the one departing no longer triggers a clearance ruling or an opposite-direction bar (#26). Reproduced from the exported save: X15 was held over X18 behind it, and X18 then collided into the full Whistle Post. Games in progress holding a ruling the engine no longer asks for will not resume (28 of 40 recorded four-seat games); shipped as is at Jesse's call. - `mainlineModified` carries the card's previous kind, so the log can say what a Realignment converted (#27). The screen: - The turn chart and the Division map name the player whose move is on screen while bot turns replay, not the live actor (#25). - The owning player's name is no longer outlined by the turn arrow's stroke, which made it unreadable (#24). - A Mainline card flashes on the map when a Realignment changes it (#28). - The history is held back with the board and revealed step by step, instead of arriving whole while the board is still catching up (#29). - A ruling made by holding the office reads "Superintendent Player X" (#30), and no line names a player twice (#31). - A seated player can download their own game as a save file: the play page's Save replay button, fed by GET /api/save?token=… (#32). The StartOS action cannot do this — an action result is text only. Closes #24 Closes #25 Closes #26 Closes #27 Closes #28 Closes #29 Closes #30 Closes #31 Closes #32 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nnuCv8UodHucFfx3LWEoX |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.8.0.9 — the bot plans its switching turn, stops wasting its draws, and the engine walks each route once
The developer bot, re-measured decision by decision against the bot before it, goes from about -0.3 revenue a game to about 4.8: - plans the whole switching turn before its first Move (sim/switch-planner.ts), +2.89 over 1600 paired seeds; closes TODO #53 - takes a face-up card only if it could play it, +1.52 over 1600 seeds - stops running Second Sections by accident in the New Train phase, +0.32 - lays track by what the district can do afterwards, +0.12 over 6400 seeds, run-arounds in 22 of 60 districts against 9 The engine is 2.8x faster with play proven identical: a route cache scoped to one unchanged position, applyIntent split into prepareIntent + commitEvents, and less allocation in exploreMoves. npm test now leaves out the bot simulations, which run as npm run test:sim. No rule changed; games in progress resume. Rejected candidates and the Second Section card question are in CHANGELOG.md and TODO.md (#104-#106). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nnuCv8UodHucFfx3LWEoX |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.8.0.2 — the speed control that was only ever a URL parameter, and a Day-end
contradiction Two things found by playing v0.8.0.1, neither in the mechanism itself. ?pace= never worked. index.html's doors are play.html?lobby and play.html?solitaire, so arriving through the splash replaces the query string and the play page only ever saw ?lobby — a whole game was played at 1x while believing it was at 7x. v0.8.0 shipped that parameter as the only way to change speed and the game's own front door destroyed it. There is a control on the play screen now, beside zoom, persisted per viewer; the doors carry pace through as well, so the URL lever is honest for handing two playtesters different speeds. PACE_LEVELS moved to sim/pacing.ts with DWELL and MAX_PACE — the tuning surface in one file, and testable. The committed default is unchanged: what it should be is a question for a game played at a speed that took effect. And the Day-end dialog said "0 today, 2 in all". advance.ts increments the Day and then zeroes collisionsToday, and noteDayEnd() fires when the Day goes up — so the dialog reporting the Day that just finished was drawn from the very frame in which that Day's count was reset. Reproduced on four of five seeds before changing anything. The count is captured at the rollover now; it is not derivable on the client, because in multiplayer the push announcing the new Day is the same push that carries the reset. And "today" was the wrong word regardless: it names the Day instead — "Collisions: 2 on Day 1, 2 in all". Unrelated to v0.8.0 — that one has been wrong since the dialog was built for Gitea#10, and needed somebody to play a Day with a collision in it and then read the summary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6 |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.7.9.7 — a device that said it was available all day after it was gone
The last item off 0.7.9.6's sweep, parked there as the one genuine maybe. It had a second half worth more than the first. #101 — Telegraph (+4), Telephone (+8) and Radio (+12) are "once a day, when dispatching facing trains, add +N to the other train's number". `enhancementText(key)` takes only the KEY, so the tooltip could not vary with anything: a spent Radio read "Once a day, add +12..." for the rest of the Day, advertising a bonus that was not there. That is `trainRules` before #100, in another corner of the same view. THE HALF THAT ACTUALLY SURPRISES. `spendDispatchBonus` reads `areaOf(s, s.clock.superintendent)` — the SUPERINTENDENT's own devices, not the train owner's — and the Fedora moves every STAGES_PER_SHIFT (3) Stages, four times a Day. So a player's Radio does nothing at all for three-quarters of the Day, and is spent automatically, without its owner being asked, during the quarter it is theirs. Neither half was anywhere on the board. The card now reads as one of three states — available and dispatching, unspent but idle while somebody else holds the Fedora, or spent until the next Day — and names the shift length, because "not now" without "for how long" is half an answer. A spent device is struck through on the board. Shown on EVERY district, not only the viewer's (Jesse's call): it is public, and a rival's spent Radio is what you want to know before forcing a meet. What counts as a device is `enhancementRule(key)?.dispatchBonus` rather than three keys written out in the view — the ladder lives in ENHANCEMENT_RULES and a fourth rung would otherwise be silently exempt. A STALE COMMENT CORRECTED, AND PINNED. `advance.ts` warned that indexing a SEAT-keyed area with the PLAYER holding the Fedora "is right only while seating is the identity map". It read as a live Employee Rotation bug and was not one: `areaOf(s, p)` IS `areaAtSeat(s, seatOf(s, p))`. A comment that sends the next reader chasing a bug that does not exist costs about what the bug would. Rewritten, and the claim is now a test — seating set to a real permutation, and the Superintendent's own district rather than the seat with the same index is the one that reads as dispatching. TWO THINGS MUTATION CAUGHT THAT PASSING DID NOT. A test asserted the ABSENCE of /spent|Fedora/ with the Fedora held, and a mutant with the `dispatchBonus` guard deleted PASSED it — the leaked text in that case says "Available today, and this district is dispatching", which contains neither word. A test that something was left alone has to compare it against what it should be, so it asserts equality with `enhancementText` now, in both Fedora states. And the replay wire format needed the field: cells pack positionally, so the flag is index 9 and reads `?? []`, the same tolerance `standingWest` uses — older recordings report no device spent, which is what they drew at the time, so every published replay is unchanged. 943 tests pass, up from 934. NOT VERIFIED AT A TABLE, like 0.7.9.6. #39 and #35 still stand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y5boPxP6JHRYMm8adXaF5R |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.7.9.6 — three things the engine knew and the screen did not
Found by looking rather than by being told. Gitea#21, #22, #94 and #96 were four instances of one fault in a row — the engine gains something that changes what a train may do, and nothing draws it — and every one was found by a player hitting it. So instead of waiting for the fifth, every field of GameState and its nested types was enumerated, checked for a reader in sim/view.ts, src/web/ and sim/narrate.ts, and the survivors verified BY RUNNING THE ENGINE rather than by trusting the grep. Four fields had no reader. `movedThisPhase` lives and dies inside one `advance` call and is nobody's business. The other three are below. What was ruled out matters as much: `freightWorked`, `drawnThisTurn`, `freightAgentUsed`, `switchedSince` and `movesUsed` are invisible on purpose, their effect already showing as legality or as a complement already on the Frame. A field is not a display gap merely because nothing renders it. #98 — the Crew Tray pool. §7 scarcity is called an explicit mechanic and was explicit only in the engine. The blocked panel had one tray rule, keyed off the train due out this Stage, so a player who spent a card on an Extra or ordered a second section got an EMPTY panel while their train sat behind an exhausted pool — both having been announced once in the log in a line promising a future event that nothing then confirmed. The shared table carries the pool and the queue now, so the common board gets it too, and the panel reports all three with the count beside them. #99 — a train held at the Limits vanished off the board, and this one had shipped. The Interlocking stops an inbound train on the Limit Track rather than colliding with a full Office. `arriveAtOffice` removes the tray from the Mainline node's `transits` and the Interlocking branch pushes it onto `heldAtLimits` without assigning `tray.position` — and the map draws mainline nodes from `transits` and squares from `position.at === 'grid'`, so between the two it was drawn in NEITHER. It disappeared on arrival and reappeared in the Office some Stages later. Fixed in the view: the engine is right, and `position` is left alone deliberately so nothing treats the train as standing somewhere it could be switched from. #100 — the Campaign Train's speeches change its rules, and the card said the same thing before and after. Worse, the "EXPEDITED ... costs 1 Revenue" warning prints only under `rules.expedite`, so X17 became subject to a fault whose warning the game shows to every other expedited train and never to it. `trainRules` reads `speechMade` now and borrows `isExpedited` from advance.ts rather than restating the test. #45 — the 0.7.9 dead-field audit, finished, and the answer was different for each. `overHandLimit` is WIRED: its consumer existed all along and was inferring the hand limit from the ABSENCE of `draw.end` in the menu, which is sound only while `check` keeps refusing for exactly three reasons. `viewerSeat` is DOCUMENTED, with a condition — Gitea#20's board keys districts by seat, and the note says to delete it if step 2 ships without using it. The audit had missed a third limb. `game.mustPlayCard` was assigned on every submit and read by nothing: deleted. Chasing it turned up the thing worth fixing — the §6.2 hand-limit test existed in THREE places, all agreeing, which is the state #96's disagreement started from. One `overHandLimit(state, player)` in state.ts now, and the other two ask it. `Session.overHandLimit()` is deleted rather than kept: the Frame already carries the fact, so the method was a second path to it. 934 tests pass, up from 917. The 17 new ones were written red, and each fix checked by mutation: reverting `speechMade` fails 2, dropping the held-train projection fails 4, forgetting the tray queues fails 2. The empty blocked panel is reported beside its positive control, since an empty result from a broken function proves nothing. NOT VERIFIED AT A TABLE. Engine and view work, checked by tests and by running the engine. #39 and #35 still stand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y5boPxP6JHRYMm8adXaF5R |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 5
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v0.7.9 — solitaire setup screen feedback, and the dead settings it exposed
Four pieces of feedback from Jesse on the solitaire setup screen. THE COLLISION LIMITS DID NOTHING IN SOLITAIRE. Asked to reword those entries to "the game ends immediately and results in a loss", which was unwriteable: advance.ts gated the §3.4 check on competitive/coop, and a solitaire game's mode is 'solitaire'. Both limits were offered as live settings, rode into the config, and never fired — the existing text was already false. The exclusion was never a stated rule and nothing recorded a reason for it. Jesse's ruling: the settings do what they say, so the gate is gone rather than the controls. Measured, not asserted — 200 standard developer-bot games: loss/collisionFloor 1 in 200, Days played 5.00 -> 4.98 mean with a minimum of 1, collisions per game unchanged at 0.14. Recorded in TODO.md under Play Balance, since full-length figures predate it. Extra start defaults to ownOffice: at one seat it is the same rule as anyOffice (apply.ts only rejects another seat's start), so this is a label fix with no gameplay effect. Also: collision wording on all three screens, Employee Rotation reads "not applicable for solitaire", and the save warning is legible at 14px on an amber panel with buttons that say Continue Existing Saved Game and Deal New Game. 869 tests pass, two new; one asserted the opposite of the ruling and says so where it was reversed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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v0.7.4 — Red Flags hold a train out of your Limits (Gitea#19)
"If played, asked FLAG EAST or FLAG WEST. That stops all trains from entering your limits from that direction (i.e. Flag East holds westbound trains). You can do this if you see a problem or wish to complete switching." REPLACES the old rule outright, per Jesse's call. Red Flags used to be played on a stopped train out on the Mainline and protected it from a rear-ender: offered 4,212 times and played 4 across 600 games, a mechanic nobody used, and ABS Signals already does that job better. The flag is now planted on one side of your own district and holds the next train arriving from that side. SPENT ON THE TRAIN IT STOPS. One card, one train, so there is no lifting action to build, nothing to forget, and a flag cannot quietly strangle the Division. The held train loses one Mainline Phase and comes in on the next — it buys a Stage to clear the lead, which is what "wish to complete switching" asks for. PLAYABLE OUT OF PHASE, which is the other half of the issue: when an arrival would certainly collide and the district's owner holds the card, the phase breaks in and asks. Offered ONLY to somebody holding one — a prompt with a single button is not a choice, and it would leak that a collision is coming. The danger is read from §8.3's own two triggers rather than restated, so the prompt cannot offer a flag against a collision that will not happen. Built on the decision union Gitea#5 introduced: this adds a `redFlag` case and nothing else structural. THE BOT STILL NEVER PLAYS IT, AND I MEASURED RATHER THAN ASSUMED. It now takes the out-of-phase prompt unconditionally — the engine has already established the danger, so there is nothing left to judge — and over 200 solitaire games `redFlagsSet` fires ZERO times. The prompt needs an arrival that would collide (0.14 per game, about one game in seven) to coincide with holding the card from a three-card hand out of 121. So the anomaly exemption in sim.test.ts stays, but its comment no longer claims the bot is unwilling: it is measuring deck luck. What is left to fix is the half of the card a human would use, planting a flag on purpose to buy switching time, and TODO.md now says that instead of the old finding. A BUG WORTH RECORDING, because the next interruption will meet it too: the flag was originally taken down in a `reduce` case, which never fires for an event advance.ts emits — the phase driver mutates state and then describes it. The flag stayed up and held every train that came. test/events.test.ts's unreduced-event registry is what makes that class of mistake visible, and `redFlagSpent` is on it deliberately now, with the reasoning. 858 tests pass. Closes #19 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb |
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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The Yard Office is offered, reachable, and can be run into (Gitea#5)
"Trains that are only freight (cabooses ok, no coaches allowed) that arrive in a
player's area who has the yard office card get an extra ability… the game will
offer that player the option… They can of course still choose to have the train go
to the standard office."
It was implemented, in a stripped form missing all three conditions: a qualifying
train was TELEPORTED onto the Yard Office card. Nobody was asked, no route was
computed — so the card's own printed "that can reach the yard office in one move"
was unenforced — and because nothing was walked, nothing was ever met on the way.
All three now hold:
- OFFERED to whoever sits in the district, interrupting the Mainline Phase on the
turn the train arrives. Declining is an ordinary arrival onto an A/D track.
- REACHABILITY is the engine's own move walk. `exploreMoves` already means what
the card means — any distance without changing direction, finishing on
Operational Rail (§2.4, §A.1) — so using it is what makes code and card agree.
Reversing is a separate Move, so a yard that can only be reached by backing up
is correctly out of reach.
- CARS ON THE LEAD COLLIDE. The walk does not treat standing cars as obstacles;
it COUPLES them, because that is what a switching move does. An arriving train
is not switching, so what it would have coupled is what it is about to hit —
the same reading §8.3 already applies to the Running Track. `destination.couples`
is therefore the fouling signal, and it needed no new machinery.
Per Jesse's ruling (2026-08-29) the two failures his issue names are kept apart: no
route means no offer, with the history saying why ("make sure this is logged in
history — why can't move so user knows why they can't get to yard"); a route that
exists but is fouled IS offered, and taking it crashes. A silent absence is
indistinguishable from a broken feature, which is how the missing check survived.
THE SHARED REFACTOR THIS NEEDED. `pendingDecision` was one question asked of one
player — §8.1's clearance, always the Superintendent — and `currentActor` hardcoded
that. It is a discriminated union now, with `decisionActor` as the single place that
maps a question to whoever must answer it, and `clearanceRuling` generalised to
`decisionAnswer`. Six copies of `pendingDecision !== null ? superintendent :
currentActor` across the engine, the sim, the web client and the tests collapse into
`actingPlayer`; they had already stopped being right the moment a second kind of
question existed. Gitea#19 needs the same machinery and now only has to add a case.
A BUG THE FIRST CUT WALKED INTO, worth recording because it is a trap the next
interruption will meet too: the offer must be put BEFORE the train is taken off its
Mainline card. `needsClearance` unwinds the whole phase and the driver re-enters
from the top, so asking after the `transits` filter cost the train its place on the
card and the answer had nowhere to land. §8.1 gets this right by asking before it
commits, and the Yard Office now does the same.
The developer bot declines: the Yard Office frees an A/D track, but the lead may be
fouled and the bot cannot read its own yard well enough to tell (`TODO.md`, Bot
Performance). Declining is always safe and keeps the harness comparable with every
measurement taken before this rule existed.
851 tests pass.
Closes #5
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb
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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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Extras that must run loaded, and a circus paid per district (Gitea#13)
"I've redefined some of the extra trains that they have to run full boxcars —
military trains, circus trains, etc. If not loaded, then empty, and if none
available, run without."
MAKE-UP. X17 Campaign, X18 Circus and X19 Military carry `mustRunLoaded`. It is a
preference order rather than a flat requirement, so the rule is asked of the
DIVISION YARD: an empty is refused only while the yard can still supply a loaded
car this train would accept, and once it cannot, the empty is legal and the train
may still depart short. Per category, since that is the slot the car competes for
— a loaded coach is no reason to refuse an empty boxcar.
SCORING, per Jesse's ruling (2026-08-29): "once per stop in an office area. In a
multiplayer game, each player could score if the circus stops in their area." So
`stopPointClaimed` (a boolean, once per game) becomes `stopPointSeats` (the seats
already paid). A Circus touring three districts is paid three times; one parked in
the same district all game is paid once. The other half of the ruling — "if the
circus train gets recycled and played a second time as a second extra, then it
could again score points later too" — needs no code: a train is made up onto a
fresh tray every time, so a re-played Extra starts with an empty list.
The point now requires the train to be FULLY LOADED, meaning every non-caboose car
loaded. A coach counts as loaded when occupied, which is what makes this the right
test for the Campaign Train: X17 carries one coach and no freight, so "fully
loaded" is exactly "the candidate is aboard". X17 also GAINS the per-stop point —
it had `stopThenExpedite` and no scoring rule at all, and Jesse's "credit for a
circus or campaign train (one point per stop)" says it should score.
TWO BUGS FIXED ALONG THE WAY:
- `ConsistSpec.emptiesOnly` was declared on X13 Appleseed, RENDERED to the player
as "(empties only)" by both web/game.ts and sim/view.ts, and enforced by
nothing — `acceptsCar` never read it, so the Appleseed could be made up loaded
while its own card said otherwise. It is the same rule as this issue pointing
the other way, and it would have been perverse to add one and leave the other.
- Setting up out on the Mainline paid a point to PLAYER 0 whoever was playing:
`playerAtSeat` needs a seat, off the grid there is none, and the fallback was
`0`. Scoping the rule to Office Areas is what the ruling says and removes the
misattribution rather than patching it.
Both loading rules exempt the caboose: every caboose in ROLLING_STOCK_SUPPLY is
minted loaded, so an unexempted rule would bar the one car a consist lists by name.
`trainNeedingCars` now asks the full question per car rather than the shape
question. It shares its predicate with `check` precisely to avoid the stall its own
comment describes, and the shape question stopped being the same question: an
empties-only train facing a yard of loaded cars would have been told a car was
available and then refused every one.
The two published replays that stopped replaying under the new rules were retired
and re-recorded with save-replay.ts, which verifies each candidate before writing
it. That is what test/harness.test.ts is for and what its comment prescribes.
846 tests pass.
Closes #13
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb
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v0.7.3 — a game that asks before it ends, and a results screen worth reading
Two issues off the tracker, and they are halves of one thing: the end of a game. Neither ships on the 0.4.9 line — Jesse's call, that line may be complete and these are not fixes people mid-playtest need. EXTENDED PLAY (#11). The official result is settled at the original game length and never changes: in a five-Day game extended to eight, the winner is whoever led at the end of Day 5. Extending grants exactly one Day and the question is put again at the end of it — solitaire the player decides alone, multiplayer it is unanimous and one refusal ends it there. Only days-based endings offer it; a §3.4 collision breach is final, during an extended Day exactly as during the scheduled game. It could not be a client-side change. `check` refused every intent once `status` left `active`; the server never loads a `finished` game back into memory; and a save is `{ seed, config, history }` replayed through the engine, so a "continue" the history does not record did not happen. Hence a fourth status, `awaitingExtension`, and a `game.extend` intent. `config.days` never moves — `extraDays` counts the borrowed Days and `official` freezes the outcome, the standings and the statistics at the first ending. THE RESULTS SCREEN (#16). `GAME OVER — revenueFloor` was `outcome.reason`, an internal enum interpolated into the page at the one moment the game has the player's whole attention. Every reason now has a sentence with the game's own numbers in it. Around it: the result and winner, standings, the rules the game was dealt under, a per-player breakdown, and the railroad — trains through the Division and how many worked en route, loads made up and broken, passengers, cars switched, trains destroyed. It shares the Day-end dialog's blocks rather than reimplementing them, and stays reopenable so continuing does not cost you the results. Statistics are folded, not recorded: `state.tally` counts what the event stream says happened, hooked at `applyIntent` and `advance` because `reduce` never sees the phase driver's events — and those are the interesting ones. Nothing in the rules reads it, and it rides the Frame, so multiplayer gets the same numbers as solitaire from one implementation. THREE BUGS FOUND IN TESTING, all of which would have shipped: - a saved game containing a vote could not be resumed (NO_ACTOR). A history is a flat Intent[] with no seat recorded; the replay derives who acted from the turn order, which cannot work for an intent every seat may send in any order. `game.extend` carries its voter, checked against the authenticated seat. - an all-bot game hung on the question for ever. `driveBots` loops on `currentActor`, null the moment the game stops, so it cannot cast a vote, and the bot-vote driver returned early with no humans to follow. - the balance harness became unbounded — `test/sim.test.ts` went from under a second to never finishing. `randomBot` took another Day about half the time, so every seeded game ran to playGame's 50,000-turn cap. Fixed in the driver, not in a policy, so it holds for bots not yet written. All three have regression tests. 832 tests pass, against 793 before this change. NOT BUILT, and a correction. #16's own comment said `trainStoodStill` "is emitted per Stage, so a run of them is exactly the sat-on-a-siding streak". It is not: reading advance.ts, it fires once per game and only for a train whose profile sets `stopEarnsPoint` — the X18 Circus — with `stopPointClaimed` preventing a second. The streak was built, rendered "1 Stage at (0,0)", and was taken out again. There is no per-Stage "this train did not move" signal in the engine, so "longest an engine sat on a siding" needs one first; TODO.md #36 records what it would take, and the Circus set-up is reported instead. Badges remain the second pass #16 asks for (TODO.md #33), and because the statistics are derived rather than recorded, that pass can add any of them retroactively to games already played and saved. Extended play has not yet been played at a real table (TODO.md #35): the multiplayer vote has only been driven through `session.intent`, never through two browsers. Closes #11 Closes #16 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb |
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v0.7.2 — a leg that is part of the row, the deck the sheet prints, regions not miles per hour, and a Division you read left to right
Gitea#17 — a 45° leg is an end of the west-to-east row, so backing into a cut through a curve's south leg no longer couples it back to front. The same assumption left a crew's own cut standing when it pulled out through a leg, which is the "cars left behind" report we had failed to reproduce. Gitea#14 — every count is docs/Deck cards5.xlsx. Track halved, and the Q12 office doubling and Gap 12 industry tripling both come out with it: they were measured against a deck with twice the track, and keeping them at the sheet's track count wipes out the reefer chain entirely. 84 rows now match card for card; the ten Safety, Event and Inspection cards it adds are not built and are held out. Cards the sheet no longer lists are dealt zero copies rather than deleted, so their rules stay implemented. Gitea#15 — RAR reversed it: a rail may stop dead against its neighbour and the placement is legal. What must hold is that no train crosses the gap, which was already true and is now pinned against the reported board. Gitea#3 — the printed speeds are scenery. A card costs one Stage per printed region and where a train STARTS is what varies; Fast/Slow is read on Hilly alone. Entering a one-region card behind another is a collision now, which is what ABS exists to prevent, and ABS no longer holds trains silently. Gitea#18 — the Division draws as one row, west to east, with no office-area detail. East is finally always to the right. Closes #3 Closes #14 Closes #15 Closes #17 Closes #18 |
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v0.7.0 — four game types, a lobby you can read and leave, and a multiplayer game that makes a sound
The multiplayer set-up, the lobby, the start of a game, and four signals a remote client had never been sent. Reasoning, the preset table and what was verified how: CHANGELOG.md. - Co-op, Competitive, Cutthroat, Solitaire and Custom, on both screens, from one shared block — they had drifted, and each was missing a question the other asked. - A player reads the whole rule set before taking a seat, may leave a lobby or a running game, and keeps a seat across a reload. The host may clear a chair. The browser remembers every game it is in, not just the last one. - The start of a game is drawn: a handoff beat, an announcement, the code and type in the header. - Sound, the timetable flash, announcements and the just-drawn badge now reach a remote client; justDrawn goes to the seat that drew it and nobody else. - Played on StartOS, which found the rest: an Extra belongs to the player who played it, the board never named the Superintendent, bot seats were reported as absent players, and rule section numbers are out of every string a player reads. Also carries the previous session's Heavy Grade documentation work — asked again, answer unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016JczK5i33ZNSf2PtzZqdhS |
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v0.6.2 — an Extra starts where you put it, a train card is never discarded
Three more from the v0.4.9e gameplay-testing round, filed as Gitea issues, plus two bugs found underneath them. Gitea#2 is diagnosed but NOT fixed: it needs a ruling, and the reasoning is in TODO.md under Play Balance. GITEA#4 — AN EXTRA STARTS WHERE THE PLAYER PUTS IT. Only one Division Point was ever offered, chosen by number parity. The number no longer decides an Extra's direction — the start does, which supersedes the recorded ruling that "the number decides, like everything else on the timetable". The two cannot both hold: an odd, westbound Extra placed at the WEST end would leave the Division on its first move having crossed nothing, and be paid for the run. Either end now runs the train away from itself; at an Interchange or a Control Point the player picks the direction. The Interchange start is a YARD, off the running line, which is what makes the Superintendent clause work: placing it can never force a collision, a guaranteed one holds it there for another Stage, and a potential one is the Superintendent's to rule on — exactly evaluateClearance's `blocked` and `ask`, so nothing new decides collisions. Where an Extra may start is now a house rule (divisionPointsOnly / ownOffice / anyOffice, defaulting to what the engine already did). The legacy `atSeat` intent field still replays as it always meant. FOUND UNDERNEATH IT: an Extra started away from a Division Point ran empty. isBeingMadeUp tested position alone, so the Control Point start has been shipping since it was added with a train that could never be given a consist. Found by playing it, not by the tests, which had only asserted where the tray landed. FOUND UNDERNEATH IT: collide left the wrecks on the card. Destroyed trains kept their Transit entries, and evaluateClearance counts every transit as an occupant, so one rear-end collision permanently poisoned that Mainline card for every later train. THE MAINLINE CARDS WERE ROLLED, NOT DEALT — drawn from the nine types with replacement, so a Division could hold two Interchanges and Plains carried the weight of a card printed once. "An Extra may start at the Interchange if one is on the board" only reads as a rule if the board holds at most one. Now dealt from the printed deck without replacement, verified over 1600 deals. This re-deals every seed: the published replays were re-recorded, and the saved games in docs/ are retired too — two of those were already dead before this release and nobody had noticed. GITEA#6 — A TRAIN CARD IS NEVER DISCARDED, Timetabled and Extra alike. The forced play needed no mechanism: nothing discardable plus a hand over the limit leaves exactly one legal way to end the turn, and playing a train is unconditionally legal, so the corner cannot trap anyone. The bot needed no rule either. 400/400 games finished, revenue unmoved, trains scheduled 1.2 -> 1.3. The player is told on the card and on the button. GITEA#7 — COACH COUNTS. 1/2 Crack Limited 3 -> 2, 5/6 The Sparrow 2 -> 3. A change to the cards, so Trains3.pdf and the transcription keep the original numbers with a footnote while content.ts and the Home Deck reference carry what the game plays. CONTENT.TS COMMENT PASS — no data changed, only comments. Four were factually wrong, including an office table naming counts doubled long ago and a pointer to a DEALT_DECK_SIZE that has never existed. Every Enhancement row cited its implementation by line number and every citation had rotted; they name functions now. Card counts came out of the comments, since they move with play balance; source-sheet figures and dated measurements stayed. TODO.md gains an item for a card reference generated from content.ts, in six sections, so the documentation cannot disagree with the game. 715 tests pass, tsc clean, site builds. |
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v0.6.1 — five of six playtest bugs: one button per train, and a load that has to go somewhere
Gameplay testing on 0.4.9d returned six reports. Five are fixed; the sixth could not be reproduced and is written up in TODO.md with the two questions that would pin it down. TWO TRAINS AT ONE PLATFORM ANSWERED TO ONE BUTTON. `porter.board` and `porter.detrain` carried no tray, so there was one button per platform however many trains stood at it and the reducer filled the first empty coach on the A/D tracks. `check` and the reducer were not even asking the same question: `check` skipped a train whose card refuses passenger work and the reducer did not. Both intents now carry an optional `trayId`, one function resolves the train and the coach for check/execute/reduce alike, `legal.ts` offers one candidate per train, and the label names it. A LOAD COULD BE MADE AND BROKEN WITHOUT GOING ANYWHERE. A Freight House could unload the boxcar it had just loaded; a platform could detrain the passengers it had just boarded. Full Revenue at both ends for a movement that never happened. Jesse's rule: a load made anywhere in an Office Area may not be broken anywhere in that Office Area, ever — it has to be carried to another district. The load carries the seat that made it (`RollingStock.origin`), stripped by `pooled` at every yard push. Measured at -0.60 +/- 0.10 Revenue a game (t = -6.1) over 400 paired deals: 78 worse, 3 better, 319 unchanged — free Revenue coming off the board, not a nerf. THE GROCER'S WAREHOUSE SHIPPED AND THE REFINERY RECEIVED. Both were `flow: 'both'` on the reading that "Freight House" was a collective term for exactly those two, and therefore what §9.3 described. The engine has dealt a Freight House CARD since before v0.4.9, so §9.3 names it and the argument goes. The card set agrees: all three Refinery modifiers grant +1 outbound. Refinery outbound-only, Grocer's inbound-only, Freight House the one two-way industry — which leaves exactly the one same-district pairing the rule above refuses. NOT REPRODUCED: cars left behind when backing up over them. Five layouts tried, including cars spotted at an industry; every one couples the lot. Three are pinned in `apply.test.ts`. One way to create such cars was closed anyway — `flyingSwitch` wrote its cut past `carsOn`. Both published replays that had gone dead were re-recorded; a rules change retires a save, and `harness.test.ts` is what catches it. The same change ships as v0.4.9e on the 0.4.9 line, branched from the v0.4.9d commit — the engine files these fixes touch are identical across the two lines, so the patch applied cleanly both ways. Also carries the two "Queued 2026-08-22, from playing on StartOS" TODO items that were staged before this work started (Games in Progress readability, and getting back into a game after losing a browser). They are notes, and items 9-12 below them are numbered against them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011nbvwWMef8CuEP6t5cgkTv |
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v0.6.0 — saves survive a release, Employee Rotation is real, and the lobby
asks what game you want Three queued items. The last matters most. A RELEASE NO LONGER DESTROYS EVERY GAME IN PROGRESS. Four consecutive releases killed every game on the box, one of them a release that changed only how the board is drawn. The reasoning behind the refusal was always right — a move legal under old rules may not be legal under new ones, and half-replaying a save is worse than refusing it. The TEST was wrong: it compared engineVersion for exact equality, and that stamp is the package version, which moves for a CSS fix. Whether a save still replays has an exact answer, so it is now asked directly. loadGame reads the file and judges nothing; tryResumeSession replays the intents and reports the first one the engine refuses. A save stamped with a version this server has never run resumes fine provided its moves replay — verified against a file hand-stamped 0.4.9-ancient. One that genuinely does not replay is still refused, but the log names the move rather than two version strings: "move 3 of 8 (localOps.choose) is rejected by the current rules with OPTION_ALREADY_CHOSEN". fromMultiplayerSave had to stop lying first. It has always stopped at the first unacceptable intent and done so in silence, which was survivable only because the version gate meant a doomed replay was never attempted. Now that the replay IS the check, it returns where it stopped and why. Deliberately not done: resuming a partly-replayable game at its last good move. That silently rewinds a game to a position nobody played to while every browser holding a later Frame carries on unaware. Refusing leaves the file intact, so putting the previous version back still recovers it. EMPLOYEE ROTATION IS IMPLEMENTED, SISTER TRAINS IS DELETED. Two of the four optional-rule flags were read by nothing at all. Employee Rotation is four lines in advance.ts, because the seat/player split (D9) exists for precisely this rule: seating is the only thing that moves, so Revenue, hands, the Superintendent and whose turn it is travel with the player, and the Office, district, grid and any trains standing in it stay with the chair. Inheriting the district you move into is the point of the rule, not a side effect. "Left" is seat + 1, matching playerLeftOf. Sister Trains is deleted rather than built: Q9 records that the Second Section card supersedes it, and that card exists, so the flag was a toggle for a rule the game no longer has. THE LOBBY ASKS WHAT GAME YOU WANT TO PLAY. Creating a game asked for a name, a mode and a table size; every other dial was hardcoded. A Game settings block now carries the same set the solitaire dialog does — seed, starting hand, the three revenue rates, Days, the combined-Revenue floor, both collision caps, the opponent-card toggle — plus the three surviving optional rules. Mode and table size set the defaults and everything stays editable. The seed is honoured, so a game can be reproduced or compared. Verified: 682 tests pass (679 + 3). The rotation tests were mutation-checked both ways — disabling the rotation and turning the table the wrong way each fail the suite. Live: a save stamped 0.4.9-ancient resumed, an injected illegal move was refused by name, and a create with every dial set to a non-default value came back out of game.json with all of them intact, including seed 777. Two of my own assertions were wrong on the way and the tests caught them: the Fedora legitimately passes at Stage 12 (§5) so it cannot be compared against its own earlier value, and dispatchUsedToday is cleared at every Day boundary so it cannot mark a district. |
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v0.5.0 — multiplayer Phases 2 and 3: a server that runs a game and survives being restarted
Phases 0-1 shipped in v0.4.0 (seat/identity split, per-player turn state, the Session boundary). This lands Phase 2 (server core, one game, no lobby) and Phase 3 (persistence and resumption) per docs/architecture/multiplayer.md §12. Phases 4-6 (lobby/reconnection, the 22 opponent-directed cards, StartOS packaging) are still ahead. Phase 2: src/server/session.ts hosts a game in pure logic (no sockets) on top of game.ts's existing Game/submit/currentActor/actionMenu; it verifies seat === currentActor(game) itself before calling submit, since submit() trusts its caller and a server can't. src/server/http.ts and index.ts add POST /api/game, GET /api/stream (SSE, per-seat), POST /api/intent, and static serving of dist/. src/sim/frame-delta.ts is a purpose-built per-seat board delta for one live push at a time. Found and fixed along the way: actionMenu(game, seat) only used seat for the hand field, so a server computing every connected seat's Menu would have handed the acting player's legal moves to a waiting seat. Verified with a live end-to-end smoke test (2-player game, two SSE streams, a rejected intent from the wrong seat, an idempotent resend) plus test/server/session.test.ts and test/redaction.test.ts. Not verified: an actual browser (none available in this environment). Phase 3: src/server/persistence.ts writes game.json and turn-timings.json, atomic-rewrite-then- rename. game.ts gained fromMultiplayerSave, fixing a narration-attribution bug found while testing it (fromSave's replay loop drops the actor argument, invisible in solitaire, unreadable the moment there's more than one seat — fromSave itself still has this gap, deliberately untouched). Verified live: server killed and restarted mid-game, both seats reconnected exactly where they left off. Two rules bugs found while building this: the New Train phase never implemented its car-placement round (every car of every train was placed by the Superintendent alone, in every mode, all along — now reads the round position off tray.consist.length); and victory conditions are now one shared, configurable GameConfig set across solitaire/competitive/coop instead of a fixed length lookup and a dead firstToTarget condition. Also folds in the three fixes already released on the patch line as v0.4.9b/c/d: a switching train's crew badge failing to draw once it left the Office square, an unload that always took the westmost car regardless of which was picked, and a legal decision that could render with zero buttons. docs/testing/0.5.0-test-plan.md and three reported-bug save files (docs/station-master-seed*.json) included for reproducibility. tools/jitsi-harness/ deliberately left untracked — unrelated side-project work, not part of this release. 635 tests, 0 failures. |
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v0.4.9 — X,Y coordinates, no-switching can still clear the mainline, Q3 corrected, a clearance bug, three sounds, and the box art
A playtest review of seed 58228926 (day 6), plus one long-standing display complaint and the first real audio beyond a placeholder. - Coordinate labels read X,Y everywhere shown to a player, not the internal Y,X storage order. Display-only. - "No switching" now means may not add or drop cars, not "never touch it" — these trains can still be moved onto Secondary Track to clear the mainline. - Q3 corrected: Expedite governs WHERE a train may be left standing, not WHEN it leaves. The forced same-Stage departure is gone; a new fault costs 1 Revenue if an expedited train is left off the station when a Mainline Phase begins. Resolves "3/4 Express prints a rule it can never use" as a side effect. - evaluateClearance now checks every occupant on a Mainline card before offering a judgment call, instead of returning on whichever it found first — found while explaining a playtest report, fixed with a regression test. - Three new synthesised sounds: arrive, depart, crash. - The splash page shows the box art. Full detail, measurements and reasoning in CHANGELOG.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FvU99NEakShRMg3nN3fHAZ |
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v0.4.7 — the switching game: track order, the cut on your own card, and four rules
Eight play reports and one design that had been written up and not built. The
through-line is switching: what a card can hold, which end of a train a cut comes
off, which way a train meets cars standing on the line, and what the board and the
log say about all of it.
TRACK ORDER FOR STANDING CARS, AND THE CUT ON YOUR OWN CARD
Two reports turned out to be one root cause. `TrackCard.standing` claimed "in track
order (§A.3)" and had no defined orientation at all, while `CrewTray.consist` does
(nose first, relative to facing) — so every transfer between them was a conversion
nothing performed. §A.3 says what it should be: cars occupy the track "in the same
order they originally held, left-to-right". Left-to-right is west-to-east, and that
is now the defined orientation of `standing` and of an industry track through
`carsOn`. It is the board's orientation, not the train's, so it does not change when
a different train touches the card.
- Setting out is batch-invariant. Four cars at once, four singles and two pairs
parked three different orders, one of them physically impossible. Successive
cuts off the same end stack up towards the engine, so the insertion point is the
train's own place in the row.
- Approaching a cut from either end now mirrors. `couples` is built nearest-first
along the direction of travel and reverses onto the nose, so the farthest car met
ends up nose-most — which is what makes a run-around worth its Move.
- A train no longer drives through its own cut. The walk began at the neighbour of
the start square and never read the start card, so a crew could set cars out and
pull straight away from them. Coupling is mandatory (§A.4) and your own square is
no exception; the cut counts against the four-car limit. Setting out off the end
you are not leaving by still works.
`CrewTray.standingWest` records where a train stands among the cars on its card — a
train may set out off both ends on one square, so which side a cut is on is not
recoverable from the array alone.
On the board, the cut is drawn split at the train — west cars left, east cars right,
engine in the gap — and each car's tooltip says whether it stands ahead of or behind
the engine. The history says which end a cut came off, and a move's button separates
"takes your own boxcar back off this card" from cars found standing on the line.
Decided: taking your own cut back on the square you are standing on is UNDOING the
drop. It is exempt from trains 3/4's per-location freight budget, X13's "drop but not
pick up" and X22's "empties only", and it refunds the budget the drop spent.
Otherwise a legal-looking drop becomes silently one-way.
Measured, 200 paired seeds, developer bot: -0.55 revenue (t = -3.63), freight revenue
1.11 -> 0.56. That cost is the bot's, not the rule's — its trains run engine-first,
so at a stub industry it sets a car out between itself and the only way out, and the
correct play is §A.5's facing-point move, which is the cross-turn planning TODO.md
already records as out of reach of any bot. Filtering self-recoupling moves out of its
options took recoupling from 625 of 1,029 set-outs to 101 of 677, and all 101 that
remain are that case. Read the number as a bot measurement, not a balance one.
THE SUPERINTENDENT'S RULING NAMES THE TRAINS IT IS ABOUT
Reported: the Superintendent could not tell which train he was clearing. The heading
asks the question now — "may Train 6 follow Train 4 onto the same Mainline card?" —
and the trains moved to the FRONT of each button, because the button splits its label
at the first em-dash and showed only the head.
AN INDUSTRY TRACK HOLDS FOUR CARS, LIKE EVERY OTHER CARD
Reported at undo 188: "we wanted to drop two cars, but were only allowed to drop one."
An industry track was built as long as its box count, so a one-box industry had room
for one car. Box count is how much WORK an industry can hold, not how much RAIL it
has. Ordinary track was the other exception, unbounded; both are gone and every card
holds four.
THE FREIGHT AGENT MAY STAGE A LOAD BEFORE THE CAR IS THERE
§6.3 asks nothing of the industry track — the empty car belongs to §9.3's Load the
car, which is the Laborer's action. The gate now lives only there, so cargo can wait
on the dock while the car to ship it in is still being switched in. Nothing can jam:
a load in a green box is waiting, not stuck.
THE TRUCK DOCK UNLOADS, AND BRINGS NOBODY
+1 inbound, no Laborer. It printed +1 outbound and +1 Laborer, which made it a
longer-host-list copy of Forklifts. Beside Packing Sheds it now does nothing at all,
and the hand tooltip says so before it is played.
Also in this release, from the days before: Mainline card tooltips computed from the
crossing rule; an Extra starts from the Division Point its number sends it to; a
modifier's suppressed grant comes back when a Whistle Post is upgraded; the Oil
Refinery and the Grocer's Warehouse ship as well as receive, per the card reference;
and the dormant defences name the attack they answer. `.claude/` is now gitignored —
it holds Claude Code's worktrees, i.e. a second checkout of this repository.
570 tests, typecheck clean. The three published replays were re-recorded twice —
legality changed, so bot play changed. Full detail in CHANGELOG.md.
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393a669418 | v0.4.2 fixed passenger trains not stopping at office. changeed revenue for train completing run - 1 point to every player when train exits division | ||
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a7221dcf20 | v0.4.1 - bug fixes. initial d12 rolls determine what player in which seat. | ||
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49f8504b05 | v0.4.0 — multiplayer Phases 0 and 1: seat and player split apart, turn state per player, the page behind a Session, and eight seat/player mix-ups fixed with tests that fail without them | ||
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1bf1e95058 | v0.3.0 — playtest fixes, two new rules, and §7 enforced | ||
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6ead39c530 | fixed train# specific rules. cleaned up display topline and train display on division map | ||
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v0.1.0 — undo, the crew's reach on the board, workers on the card, and four engine bugs
Fifteen items from two playtest sessions. Three that read as drawing faults were engine bugs: cars could be added to a train that was not being made up (50 offers in 8 games), the make-up panel merged two trains and could couple a car to the wrong one, and an Office upgrade silently deleted what a Modifier had added. A fourth was a sentinel inside a coordinate's own value range — a Mainline placement travelling as row -1, which is an ordinary district row. Trains are now drawn the way they stand: west on the left, nose toward the way the engine faces, on both the district card and the Division chip. Undo steps back through the game by replaying the save without its last intent. The switching walk keeps its rejections, so the board can say why a square is not offered. Laborers and Porters are on the card, and the rule that a district only grows outwards is finally written down. Versions start here: third digit for fixes, second for a feature set, 1.0 for a release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GgtkX8JnvKa8y2tuJ8aQf4 |
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f4c0f49604 | More bug fixes. Show the timetable, and stop the arrival message contradicting itself. Fixed division point in labels. And highlighted discard as targets. | ||
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9c76b1a5e2 | Track becomes a deck card, Departments become decks, and trains must be made up to leave, industry restrictions enforced, update display and add a new game button | ||
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821d3cdffa | adding classification and division yard updates, train collisions, engine and car updates, turnout improvements. | ||
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c3c5c59a45 | Show the whole Division mainline. district now has option for auto hiding on phases where not needed. scaffold for multi-player geometry showing division. regions on mainline cards implemented. bug fix on laying rail cards. optimized replay (carried links forward). Add sounds, first pass | ||
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982952fd6c | Draw freight on the card, and teach the bot to build a railroad | ||
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f00255ce31 | more fixes and tweaks | ||
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2eca9de09f | various fixes. added version#s and added a playable browser build of the solitaire game (including deploy to filebrowser script) | ||
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d261ad7af8 | Fix parking trains, freight deadlock, and Whistle Post lock-in | ||
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b085d5a0bb | Implement Enhancements, Mainline modifiers and Maneuvers; fix unplayable track | ||
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401b879140 | Expand game engine, replay, tests, and documentation | ||
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e7bc07df85 | Initial commit |